searching for article in front of a variable

Jing Torralba jingtorralba at comcast.net
Fri Apr 10 08:29:28 PDT 2009



And if you go with Peter's suggestion ... 



The writer might have instances for saying "the DHW" and "the MOH," so this could warrant two more variables to address the need for "the ..." 

Jing 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Gold" <peter at knowhowpro.com> 
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com, llittle at words-tw.com 
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:08:51 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: searching for article in front of a variable 

> I have a variable (government ministry of health shortform) that affects 
> the 
> article in front of it. Each province has a different shortform. When I 
> change the variable, the article may be affected. 
> 
> For example, in the Ontario doc, it's "an MOH bill", while in New 
> Brunswick, 
> it should be "a DHW bill". 
> 
> Is there any way to search for "a <var name>" or "an <var name>", or do I 
> have to just search for all instances of that variable to check the article 
> in front of it? 

If the form name always appears with appropriate article, would it 
suffice to define the variable with the article and the form name, as: 

"a DHW " or "an MOH "? 

HTH 

Regards, 

Peter 
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